Word: travellings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...students at 5:30 a.m. for prayers, meditation, Mass and breakfast before they leave for the Gregorian University and four hours of lectures in Latin. Afternoons and evenings are occupied with athletics, study periods, spiritual reading and chapel; on Thursdays only, the young seminarians are permitted to travel downtown singly; other days they must go in groups of three or more...
Berenson's kind of sacrifice required a lot of money. It meant extensive travel to look at art: it meant building an art library of close to 50,000 volumes together with a now priceless art collection. It required many servants, researchers, a Tuscan villa with a vast formal garden in which to "taste the air." Hearing that he had his watch warmed to body temperature by the butler every morning before he strapped it on his wrist, impatient folk inclined to dismiss Berenson as a lucky hedonist. But he was really an ascetic in reverse who worked untiringly...
When, in 1935, as a teaching assistant in the Government department, Latham was offered a grant from the Social Science Research Council, he accepted it because it provided him with an opportunity to travel. "I was born in Massachusetts (New Bedford) and at the time I had never been as far west as the Connecticut River." As for the grant itself, he explains, "You know, it was one of those grants where you travel around the United States and sort of study the rotundity of the earth...
...flash for the beach on a whim. They can ignore the most ingenious lures bobbed past their noses by experts, then hit something splashed into the water by a novice. Toughest of all to figure are the canny ancients that go 60 lbs. and higher. "The big ones, they travel by themselves," said Oscar. "They like a big rock, and they settle under it for a few days. You got to think months ahead to which rock that big one is liable to pick...
...with his stuffy father, he climbs a big tree and vows, "I'll never come down again!" And he doesn't-for more than half a century. The area around the little north Italian town of Ombrosa is so heavily forested that he can travel for miles swinging from tree to tree like an 18th century Tarzan. He builds tree houses and shoots game. He climbs down to a low branch to milk a complacent goat, trains a hen to lay in a convenient place. A limb overhanging a swift-running stream makes an excellent toilet...